Software tools in use
The main tool for communications between tasks, processors and services. Pretty much the backbone of the distributed PHENIX online environment.
Orbix via JAVA -- used for GUI’s, control applets, info applets, also brings ORBIX to the Linux platforms
Objectivity is used to store all sorts of “meta” data - HV information, temperature readings, configuration settings, geometry info (also big in offline computing)
ROOT is used for analysis and monitoring, and for most user-developed GUI’s
High Voltage control, and some miscellaneous things